The Capacity Your Business Depends On is Eroding
We help teams direct workplace change, rather than drown in it.
unBurnt is a research-backed organizational capacity and leadership development practice.
We diagnose where the strain is compounding, before it shows up in your performance data, and help you rebuild the capacity underneath.
For Workplaces
We partner with high-growth companies to address three forces that are colliding at once.
The Cognitive Load of AI transformation: The workplace and work itself is being rewritten underneath you people. New tools, accelerating technology, a rising output bar, and no clear standard for what ‘good’ looks like. Our research found unclear AI expectations were among the strongest predictors of decreased long-term capacity.
Hybrid Fragmentation: Teams are harder to align, harder to connect, and the informal moments that used to build trust are harder to come by.
Always-On Disconnection: The exhaustion of overload leads people to deprioritize exactly what would restore them: rest, connection, recovery. The bandwidth transformation demands is the bandwidth that is already gone.
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Why Now?
Employees aren’t just overloaded. They’re operating inside systems that fragment attention, blur priorities, and keep teams stuck in reaction mode.
Expectations are shifting faster than teams can absorb.
Workflows are shaped by interruption, urgency, and constant context switching.
There’s more complexity with less space to onboard new ideas and recover.
Employees are facing increased pressure to perform, often with fewer resources, with increasing uncertainty and lack of clarity.
Cognitive bandwidth is shrinking under AI acceleration and digital noise, resulting in decision fatigue and avoiding complex, strategic thinking.
These aren’t resilience problems. These are capacity limitations.
What’s missing is the infrastructure to support the people carrying the change.
Your team is showing up.
That doesn’t mean they have headspace for the complex work required.
Here’s what’s happening.
Individual Level
Chronic stress doesn't make people less capable. It limits access to the capability they have. Working memory narrows. Decision quality drops. Creative thinking goes quiet before the calendar does. The body signals it before anyone names it.
Company Level
When uncertainty, pressure, and stress is building collectively across leaders and teams, visible activity may stay intact. But strategic thinking erodes. Collaboration stalls. Cynicism increases. The engagement survey catches it eventually, usually months after it was already gone..
What’s Breaking Down
Most research describes the problem. Ours was designed to diagnose it. We mapped the workplace conditions driving burnout and depleted innovation capacity.
Our Research
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Employees were overextended, defined as High burnout + High reactivity + Low capacity AI uncertainty and unclear role expectations were among top predictive risk factors of high burnout and low capacity.
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Managers were more likely than individual contributors to report higher levels of burnout.
Not sure where your team stands?
The Capacity Diagnostic is a FREE assessment that maps where the friction is, before it shows up in your performance data.
Four dimensions. One clear picture of where capacity is holding and where it's leaking.
Burnout Risk Is your organizational environment generating burnout risk or protecting against it?
Operating Capacity Does the way work gets done protect focused execution or quietly fragment it?
Cognitive Bandwidth Do your employees have the capacity to lead or are they just barely keeping up?
Support and Trust Do your people feel safe enough to surface problems early or are they managing quietly until it's expensive?
It takes 3-5 minutes. Results are instant. And it's free.
Meet the Founder
Hi I’m Alison, and I built unBurnt to solve a problem I couldn’t find an answer to.
I’m a former Chief of Staff and VP of Strategy & Analytics at a $1B global HRTech company. Prior to that, I spent nearly 20 years in corporate roles, across finance (Morgan Stanley), eCommerce (Wayfair pre-IPO), and B2B Saas (Workhuman). I climbed the ladder, diligently checking every box as I hustled my way to the top. I watched first-hand what chronic overload costs a business, and then a health scare in 2023 made me live it.
What I found in recovery was that nearly every solution asked the individual to fix a problem that was structurally created. Nobody was touching the conditions creating the friction, while also supporting the people delivering the work. That's the gap unBurnt closes.
I’m also an Executive in Residence, Center of Health and Business, Bentley University, and I co-author of the paper, When Burnout Looks Like Productivity: The New Risk to Innovation Capacity (2026).
Alison Campbell | Founder, unBurnt | Connect on LinkedIn
What people are saying
About our Programming
“Alison ran an excellent offsite workshop for my team. Focused on resilience and personal wellbeing, it was great theory translated to even better practice. Since then, she has engaged deeper with the team and is offering great support.”
— Tracey Dawson | TA Head of Neuroscience, Novartis
About the Impact of our Research
“I read it, it’s really important, and I actually made two changes at Workbar since reading it. For our sales cycle we don’t take the foot off the gas, every month it restarts. After reading this, I thought, we should give everyone a break on the first of the month to reset. To have some sort of break they can look forward to, and from a certainty perspective, know it’s coming. So they can push really hard at the end of the month, and know that on the first of the month, they won’t have to focus on sales.
- Sarah Travers | CEO, Workbar
The capacity to lead through change can be built. Let's build yours.
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